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Thanks for posting this, it has made me reflect. I think that’s a fair point.

No, but close. Someone like that built the infrastructure tooling to do deep research, wrote up their process doing that, and then did what you said after, which I consider to be d…

Yes, it was created by a cool called Sourcery. Sourcery Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996426 The project is currently private, I'd love to have access to its sour…

I get one a week minimum, hundreds per year. I don’t follow up often enough to know whether they are real and separate etc though.

I’m not sure what you mean? I have goals that I want to achieve; lil ai buddy comes along and helps me, over time buddy becomes better able to help me do stuff. What do you mean ro…

Anecdote: As a hapless junior engineer I once did something extremely similar. I ran a declarative coding tool on a resource that I thought would be a PATCH but ended up being a PU…

I would argue that “Why did you do that?” between humans is usually a social thing not a literal request for information. What the asker wants is evidence that you share their mode…

This is something I really hope can be solved. I long for a “copilot” that can learn from me continuously such that it actually helps if I teach it what I like somehow.

I agree that the model can help troubleshoot and debug itself. I argue that the model has no access to its thoughts at the time. Split brain experiments notwithstanding I believe t…

I suspect we are not describing the same thing. When a human asks another human “why did you do X?”, the other human can of course attempt to recall the literal thoughts they had w…

There is something darkly comical about using an LLM to write up your “a coding agent deleted our production database” Twitter post. On another note, I consider users asking a codi…

Thanks for writing this comment, I think seeing someone’s “first impressions” and then seeing someone else’s response to those thoughts is more interesting and feels more connected…

I think it may be that we agree but because the expression “vibe code” has many meanings it’s hard to tell. I would absolutely still bring a coding agent with me for a project like…

This fan out approach plus something like Kafka consumer groups is often a better approach to getting workers to take from the same pool anyways, because you can do key based parti…

I think there are two kinds of partition based approach which may cause some confusion if lumped together in this kind of comparison. Insert and delete with old partition drop vs i…

Yes you can, and at the risk of sounding a little snarky; if you do something like that and then release it as open source, people may even discuss it on HN!

In Postgres land bloat refers to dead tuples that are left in place during certain operations and need to be vacuumed later. It’s challenging to write a queue that doesn’t create b…

Yes what you’re describing is literally the thing GitHub has built but instead of having to make a bunch of compromises, there is dedicated UI and product metaphor for it. Some exa…

Then you lose the ability to merge the portion of work which has been agreed to, until the whole change overall has been agreed to.

No, each PR is based on the previous one, so the reviewer only needs to consider the ideas that are new in each PR one at a time.

The teams that I have worked with still apply the philosophy you’re describing, but they consider PRs to be the “commit”, i.e. the smallest thing that is sane to apoly individually…

We use this feature extensively at $dayjob. Imagine you have some task you are working on, and you wish to share your progress with people in bite sized chunks that they can review…

I think the harsh truth in this case is that this person has qualities of their personality and their habits that make them incompatible with a conventional job.

In my society, absolutely, possibly literally more than a hundred people. Where in the world is the answer no? Maybe if you’ve freshly immigrated to a new country or something? Tha…